OTTAWA - The federal government has lost in a bid to go behind closed doors in a prominent court case about allegations of spying on anti-pipeline activists. In a ruling Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Robert Barnes sided with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in embracing the open-court principle and turning down the government's confidentiality request. If the decision stands, it means the public will have a fuller view of events when the court looks at the central issue [Read more]
Cenovus makes oilsands cuts to avoid low prices, ‘not for charity,’ says CEO
CALGARY - Cenovus Energy Inc. says it is cutting oilsands production, putting more barrels in storage, ramping up rail shipments and may delay producing from a nearly completed expansion project to avoid current steep price discounts. The cutbacks will likely help relieve a glut of oil in Western Canada blamed on not enough export pipeline space, but CEO Alex Pourbaix said Wednesday the Calgary-based company is doing it strictly for the benefit of its shareholders. "We're not going to [Read more]
NEB energy forecast calls for more clean power and more oil output by 2040
CALGARY - The National Energy Board says renewable sources of electricity in Canada will grow over the next 20 years but so will Canadian oil and natural gas production. In a new report, the national regulator says Canadians will learn to use less energy, even as the economy grows, through to 2040. Under its reference or base case, the NEB predicts total Canadian electricity generation will increase by about 12 per cent from 2017 to 2040, with most of the new sources from natural gas, wind [Read more]
Alberta premier tells B.C. steelworkers jobs at risk without Trans Mountain
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says it's "just dumb" that the Canadian economy is losing millions of dollars a day because the province can't get its oil to world markets. Notley took her message on the importance of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to steelworkers meeting in Kamloops, B.C., Wednesday. She warned them that jobs across the country — including theirs — are at risk every day the Trans Mountain project doesn't go ahead. She repeated her oft-made [Read more]
Saskatchewan introduces climate change legislation as feud with Ottawa continues
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has introduced its own climate change law as its feud with Ottawa over a carbon tax continues to play out in the courts. The bill, which amends current climate legislation, lays the groundwork for standards to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Under the proposed legislation, large emitters would be required to register with the province and could receive credits for reaching targets. Environment Minister Dustin Duncan says large emitters [Read more]
AltaGas shares fall as it eyes $1.5B in asset sales, cancels dividend program
CALGARY - Investor distaste for buying equity means AltaGas Ltd.'s best option to fund future growth is selling assets, its founder and acting co-CEO said Tuesday. The Calgary-based gas and power company announced it will sell assets to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion by the end of March, despite recently exceeding its earlier target of $2 billion in sales to pay down bridge financing needed to complete its $9-billion purchase of U.S. utility company WGL Holdings. [Read more]
Trans Mountain, pipelines dominate opening of Alberta legislature sitting
EDMONTON - Alberta's politicians returned to the legislature Monday and picked up right where they left off in the spring by bashing each other over pipelines. Opposition United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney accused Premier Rachel Notley's government of failing Alberta on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the carbon tax and Bill C-69, which is before the Senate and would change how energy projects are assessed and approved. "Instead of following, why doesn't this government lead in [Read more]
Study suggests bedrock stress a factor in fracking-caused earthquakes
New research is digging in to why fracking causes earthquakes in some areas but not in others. A paper published Monday in Geophysical Research Letters suggests the likelihood of an artificial earthquake is heavily influenced by how stable the ground was before the energy industry showed up. "Some places appear to be particularly responsive to (artificially-)occurring earthquakes while other places aren't," said Honn Kao, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada and [Read more]
Canadian crude-by-rail exports rise to new record of 229,544 bpd in August
CALGARY - The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada rose to a record 229,544 barrels per day in August. That's up more than 11 per cent from 206,624 bpd in July and 91 per cent from just under 120,000 bpd in August 2017. Pipeline export constraints are being blamed for a glut of oil in Western Canada that have caused the price discount to peak at more than US$50 per barrel for Western Canadian Select oilsands blend versus New York benchmark West Texas [Read more]
Alberta’s Notley announces candidacy, slams Kenney in speech to NDP members
EDMONTON - Rachel Notley has made it official, announcing she will run again in the next election, touting her government's record while slamming opponent Jason Kenney as a self-serving policy huckster. "I'm am not done fighting because we have only just begun!" said Notley to a standing ovation in her keynote address Sunday to party faithful. "My name is Rachel Notley, and I am running again to be your premier!" It was one of 15 standing ovations as Notley spoke Sunday to 1,200 [Read more]
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